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Shaker Aamer
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Shaker Aamer is a Saudi citizen who was held by the United States in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba for more than thirteen years without charge. He was the last British resident held in Guantanamo, released to Great Britain on October 30,2015, Aamer was seized in Afghanistan by bounty hunters, who handed him over to US forces in December 2001 during the United States invasion of the country. Two months later, the US rendered Aamer to the Guantánamo camp, Aamer had been a legal resident in Britain for years before his imprisonment, the UK government repeatedly demanded his release, and many people there called for him to be released. The file asserts past associations with Richard Reid and Zacarias Moussaoui, Aamer denies being involved in terrorist activity and his lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith, said the leaked documents would not stand up in court. He claimed that part of the came from an unreliable witness. Aamer’s father-in-law, Saaed Ahmed Siddique, said, All of these claims have no basis, if any of this was true he would be in a court now. The Bush administration acknowledged later that it had no evidence against Aamer, Aamer has never been charged with any wrongdoing, was never on trial, and his lawyer says he is totally innocent. He was approved for transfer to Saudi Arabia by the Bush administration in 2007 and he has been described as a charismatic leader who spoke up and fought for the rights of fellow prisoners. Aamer alleges that he has been subject to torture while in detention, campaigners allege that the US refused to release Aamer because it feared he would expose torture inside the Guantanamo prison. He claims to have lost 40 per cent of his weight in captivity. After a visit in November 2011, his lawyer said, I do not think it is stretching matters to say that he is dying in Guantanamo Bay. In 2015, despite Aamers deteriorating health, the US denied a request for an independent medical examination, on 25 September 2015 the US government announced that Aamer would be released to the UK within thirty days. He was released to the UK on 30 October 2015, Aamer was born on 12 December 1966 and grew up in Medina in Saudi Arabia. He left the country at the age of 17 and he lived and traveled in the United States, Europe and the Middle East. Aamer lived and studied in Georgia and Maryland in 1989 and 1990, during the Gulf War, he worked as a translator for the U. S. Army. He moved to the United Kingdom in 1996 where he met Zin Siddique and they have four British children, the youngest of whom Aamer had never met, due to his having been born after Aamers imprisonment. Aamer had indefinite leave to remain in the UK, and was applying for British citizenship, Aamer worked as an Arabic translator for London law firms. Some of the solicitors he worked for dealt with immigration cases, in his spare time, Aamer helped refugees find accommodation and offered them advice on their struggles with the Home Office

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Muhammad Rahim al Afghani
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Muhammad Rahim Haqmal Afghani is an Afghan who is held in captivity at by the United States Government Guantanamo Bay. He was born in eastern Afghanistan, Muhammad Rahim worked for an Afghan government committee that worked to eliminate opium poppies from the nation. He was forced to leave his job by the Taliban, in 1979, Rahim fled Afghanistan with his brother over the border of Pakistan. Their departure was triggered by the Soviet Union invasion into Afghanistan, in 2007 The Nation reported that Mohammed Rahim and Sheikh Ilyas Khel had been apprehended by Pakistani security officials. The Nation described him as Osama bin Laden’s special aide, while in Pakistan, Muhammad Rahim was captured and turned over to the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency for interrogations regarding Rahims interactions with the Taliban, in CIA custody, Rahim was subjected to long periods of sleep deprivation and other methods of torture as part of the Rendition, Detention and Interrogation Program. He was the last known person to be admitted subject to the CIAs RDI program, after several months of CIA interrogations and torture, however, Rahim, in March 2008, was sent to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba where he is held in extrajudicial detention. Described as a tough, seasoned jihadist by the head of the CIA, Rahim was accused of helping Osama bin Laden escape capture as well as working as bin Ladens translator, Rahim is the last prisoner to have been sent to Guantanamo. Despite his five years in Guantanamo, no charges have been made against Muhammad Rahim, the US military has stated that is has not intention of trying him in a military commission. The United States government, through the Periodic Review Secretariat, has announced that it does not intend to recommend his release. Accordingly, he is a forever prisoner and he is also not a possible candidate for an exchange peace deal. The United States Department of Defense announced he had transferred to military custody on 14 March 2008. According to Agence France-Presse, The New York Times reported that he was the first captive to be transferred from CIA custody in close to a year. He was captured in Lahore, Pakistan, in June 2007, according to the official press release announcing his transfer to Guantanamo he had been held in the CIAs network of secret interrogation centers prior to his transfer to Guantanamo. The Pentagon classified him as a high value detainee, an appellation he shared with the 14 captives transferred from the CIA on September 6,2006, and with Abdul Hadi al Iraqi. That press release stated, While in Guantanamo Bay, Muhammad Rahim is being detained in Camp 7, while in American custody in Guantanamo, Rahim has yet to have charges filed against him or have a court appearance to defend himself and present his case. In late November 2008 the New York Times published a page220px summarizing the official documents from each captive, the New York Times stated that no further official records of his detention—no Combatant Status Review Tribunal had been published. They identified him as identified captive 10030 and they identified him as a high value detainee

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Mohamad Farik Amin
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Mohamad Farik Amin, alias Zubair Zaid, is a Malaysian who is alleged to be a senior member of Jemaah Islamiyah and al Qaeda. He is currently in American custody in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and he is one of the 14 detainees who had previously been held for years at CIA black sites. In the ODNI biographies of those 14, Amin is described as a subordinate of Hambali. Farik Amin is also a cousin of well-known Malaysian terrorist Zulkifli Abdhir, time also reported that the three were captured together in central Thailand on August 11,2003. The ODNI document says that Hambali and Bin Lep were captured together, on January 21,2009, the day he was inaugurated, United States President Barack Obama issued three Executive orders related to the detention of individuals in Guantanamo. That new review system was composed of officials from six departments, on April 9,2013, that document was made public after a Freedom of Information Act request. Mohamad Farik bin Amin was one of the 71 individuals deemed too innocent to charge, Obama said those deemed too innocent to charge, but too dangerous to release would start to receive reviews from a Periodic Review Board. The first review wasnt convened until November 20,2013, as of 15 April 201629 individuals had reviews, but Mohammed Farik Amin wasnt one of them

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Ibrahim Sulayman Muhammad Arbaysh
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He was released into the custody of Saudi Arabian authorities and then escaped in 2006. Al-Rubaish was captured near the Pakistan-Afghan border and transferred to Saudi Arabia on December 13,2006, on February 3,2009 Saudi security officials published a new list of Saudi suspected terrorists. Al-Rubaish was one of 11 of the 85 men on this list who was a former Guantanamo captive, in November 2009 a research paper from the think tank The Jamestown Foundation asserted that Al-Rubaish was now a mufti for Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. The paper asserted Al-Rubaish had published a book criticizing Shaykh Salman al-Ouda and it also claimed that he had released an additional audio tape in November 2009, criticizing the Saudi governments introduction of mixed sex education for children. Al-Rubaish was transferred to Saudi Arabia on December 13,2006, then escaped custody and joined AQAP in Yemen. In October 2014, the U. S. State Departments Rewards for Justice program opened a US$5 million reward for Al-Rubaishs location, in December 2014, he was designated a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. AQAP released a statement in April 2015 announcing that al-Rubaish had been killed with other unnamed individuals in a strike near Mukalla on 12 April 2015. It is believed that the strike was carried out by the United States. Poems From Guantánamo A Poem From Guantánamo, “Ode to the Sea” by Ibrahim al-Rubaish Andy Worthington “Ode to the Sea” as performed at protest demonstration on YouTube

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Asim Thahit Abdullah al Khalaqi
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Asim Thahit Abdullah Al Khalaqi was a citizen of Yemen, who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camp, in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 152, Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts estimate Al Khalaqi was born in 1968, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. On December 30,2014 Asim Thahit Abdullah al Khalaqi was transferred to the custody of Kazakhstan with four other detainees and they were prevented from being repatriated to Yemen because of its uncertain political state. Al Khalaqi died of kidney failure 129 days after his transfer. In the early years of his response to the 9/11 attacks, following the Supreme Courts ruling, the Department of Defense set up the Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants. A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Asim Thahit Abdullah Al Khalaqis 2004 Combatant Status Review Tribunal and he was listed as one of the captives who The military alleges. Are associated with both Al Qaeda and the Taliban and he was identified as one of the captives who The military alleges that the following detainees stayed in Al Qaeda, Taliban or other guest- or safehouses. In addition, the military alleged that he took military or terrorist training in Afghanistan, Asim Thahit Abdullah Al Khalaqi was listed as one of the captives who The military alleges. Asim Thahit Abdullah Al Khalaqi was listed as one of the captives whose names or aliases were found on material seized in raids on Al Qaeda safehouses and facilities, Asim Thahit Abdullah Al Khalaqi was listed as one of the captives who was a foreign fighter. Asim Thahit Abdullah Al Khalaqi was listed as one of the captives who say that they were doing charity work, Al Khalaqi chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal. The DoD published a summarized transcript. On July 12,2006 the magazine Mother Jones provided excerpts from the transcripts of a selection of reviews of the Guantanamo detainees, Al Khalaqi was one of the detainees profiled. And all previous Guantanamo captives habeas petitions were re-instated, in July 2008 Civil Action No. 05-CV-999 was re-filed on Asim Ben Thabit Al-Khalaqis behalf and his was the sole case in 05-CV-999. On April 25,2011, the whistleblower organization WikiLeaks published formerly secret assessments drafted by Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts, a nine-page assessment was drafted on January 1,2007. It was signed by camp commandant Harry B. Harris Jr. who recommended continued detention and his 2007 JTF-GTMO assessment characterized him as a medium risk. When he assumed office in January 2009 President Barack Obama made a number of promises about the future of Guantanamo and he promised the use of torture would cease at the camp. He promised to institute a new review system and that new review system was composed of officials from six departments, where the OARDEC reviews were conducted entirely by the Department of Defense

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Walid bin Attash
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Walid Muhammad Salih bin Roshayed bin Attash is a Yemeni prisoner held in extrajudicial detention at the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence described him as a scion of a terrorist family and he is formally charged with selecting and helping to train several of the hijackers of the September 11 attacks. Attash was given victim status in Poland for his torture by Americans in a CIA black site on Polish soil. Hailing from a prominent Saudi family on friendly terms with Osama bin Laden and his family was deported from Yemen based on his fathers radical views, and he grew up in Saudi Arabia. He studied at the University of Islamic Studies in Karachi, Pakistan, Attash lost his right leg in 1997 while fighting against the Northern Alliance and wore a metal prothesis in its place, leading to the nickname Father of the Leg. His brother was killed in the battle, and his death led Attash to join al-Qaeda. He was asked to obtain explosives to target the USS The Sullivans in 1999. In late 1999 while using the nom de guerre Khallad, Attash phoned Khalid al-Mihdhar, in January 2000, Attash flew to Malaysia, ostensibly to receive a new prosthetic leg, and attended the summit. On January 8, Malaysian Special Branch informed the CIA that Attash had flown to Bangkok together with al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi. While there, the FBI received a transcript of a call from Fahd al-Quso and one of the USS Cole bombers. During later interrogation, al-Quso confessed that he was handing over $36,000, in October 2000 Attash was identified as the mastermind behind the USS Cole bombing which took place in Aden, Yemen. On September 11,2002, his 17-year-old brother Hassan bin Attash was taken prisoner by Pakistani forces raiding the Tariq Road House, handed over to the Americans, Attash was captured together with Ali Abdul Aziz Ali in Karachi, on April 29,2003. He was sent to The Dark Prison, and his brother was moved to Guantanamo Bay detention camps in 2003 or 2004, while there, he was interrogated under harsh circumstances, and confessed that Abderraouf Jdey had been known to him. He was transferred to Guantanamo on September 6,2006, together with 13 other high-level detainees the CIA had been holding in secret detention and they had been instituted in 2004 to mitigate the Supreme Courts findings that the holding of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay was unconstitutional. A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for the tribunal, listing the alleged facts that led to his detainment, the memo alleged that Attash had trained in close-combat in the Lowgar training camp and seen Osama bin Laden give a speech to graduates of the camp. The memo also alleged that Attash used a Yemeni merchants registration card that had been forged by a suspect of the USS Cole bombing. An unnamed participant in the Cole bombing also confessed to being given a written by Attash which asked for his assistance with the bombing. It also said that authorities knew of an al-Qaeda cell dubbed Father of the Leg that revolved around a senior member and he was also implicated by a notebook found during a raid, which listed payments made to various al-Qaeda members

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Ali al-Bahlul
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Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al Bahlul is a Yemeni citizen who has been held as an enemy combatant since 2002 in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camp. He boycotted the Guantanamo Military Commissions, arguing there was no legal basis for the military tribunals to judge him. The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit overturned most of his convictions on January 25,2013, in October 2016, a divided D. C. Circuit affirmed Bahluls final remaining conviction, which was for criminal conspiracy. Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts describe Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al Bahlul as al Qaidas public relations director and he is alleged to have created propaganda videos glorifying attacks against the United States. He faced charges before the first Guantanamo military commissions, before the United States Supreme Court ruled that they were unconstitutional under existing executive authority, in 2004 he was held in solitary confinement. The DoD set up the Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants, OARDEC conducted annual reviews from 2004 to 2008. Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al Bahlul was listed as one of the captives who the military alleges were members of either al Qaeda or the Taliban, Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al Bahlul was listed as one of the captives who The military alleges. Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al Bahlul was listed as one of the captives who The military alleges that the following detainees stayed in Al Qaeda, Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al Bahlul was listed as one of the captives who The military alleges. Took military or terrorist training in Afghanistan, Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al Bahlul was listed as one of the captives who The military alleges. Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al Bahlul was listed as one of the captives who The military alleges, served on Osama Bin Laden’s security detail. Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al Bahlul was listed as one of the captives who was a member of the al Qaeda leadership cadre. Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al Bahlul was listed as one of the captives currently at Guantánamo who have been charged before military commissions and are alleged Al Qaeda leaders, Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al Bahlul was listed as one of the captives who had admitted being Al Qaeda leader. Bahlul faced charges before a Guantanamo military commission prior to the United States Supreme Court ruling in Hamdan v. S. courts-martial and he was indicted along with Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al Qosi. Lieutenant Commander Philip Sundel, his first military defense attorney, described the difficulty in getting a security clearance for a translator to talk to his client, Sundel told CBS News, Theres virtually no chance he can get a fair trial. Bahlul asked Peter Brownback, the president of the commissions, if he could represent himself and his most recent military lawyer is Major Thomas Fleener. After the Supreme Court ruling, Congress passed the Military Commissions Act of 2006, to military commissions at Guantanamo to hear. On February 9,2008, Bahlul and Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud Al Qosi were charged before military commissions, David McFadden of the Associated Press reported that only three reporters covered Bahluls trial, associated with the Miami Herald, the Associated Press, and Reuters. The new law authorized detainees to represent themselves by choice, in late October 2008, three of the men from the group known as the Buffalo Six testified at Bahluls Guantanamo military commissions

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Ammar al-Baluchi
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Ammar Al-Baluchi is a Pakistani citizen in U. S. custody at Guantanamo Bay detention camp. Charges against him include facilitating the 9/11 attackers, acting as a courier for Bin Laden, member of the same al-Baluchi clan as Khalid Sheikh Muhammad and Ramzi Yousef, U. S. He reportedly married and then divorced Aafia Siddiqui, the celebrated Pakistani militant and scientist convicted of shooting at US soldiers, Ammar Al-Baluchi was born in Kuwait City, Kuwait, and is the maternal nephew of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and cousin of Ramzi Yousef. The extended family of al-Baluchi is ethnically Baluchi and originally from Balochistan, the family patriarch and his brother were lay Deobandi preachers. They moved the family to Kuwait in the 1960s, Baluchi grew up in Kuwait but spent most of teenage years in Iranian Baluchistan, but is a citizen of Pakistan. Trained as computer technician, he dressed in Western clothes and introduced himself as a businessman, since boyhood by his cousins and uncles to join their clandestine war, according to journalist Debra Scroggins. He is fluent in English and worked at Mohammeds honey-processing company in Karachi for a while before being hired in 1998 as a technician for Modern Electronics Corporation in Dubai. According to a US government biography, Balouchi volunteered his services to uncle KSM in 1997, according to US officials that the majority of money that came to the Saudi hijackers for the September 11 attacks was transferred through Baluchi and Mustafa al-Hawsawi. In his defence, Baluchi claims that he helped people in Dubai with such things to supplement his income. Baluchi then shipped them to his uncle to pass onto Shehhi, rafeaa later claimed that Nawaf al-Hazmi had asked him to accept the money on his behalf. Tracing the calls made to Baluchis phone number, authorities discovered that he had received 16 calls from June 28–30 from a pre-paid Voicestream cellphone purchased in Manhattan on June 4. The phone was deactivated on July 11, and authorities allege it belonged to Atta, while Baluchi insisted that he ever spoke with Shehhi. Around this time, Baluchi complained to Mohammed that he couldnt do all this work himself. On June 29, a man named Isam Mansur wired $5000 to the Western Union at 1440 Broadway in New York, on August 8, Baluchi opened a bank account at Dubai Islamic Bank, using his name, passport and phone number. A $20,000 payment from Baluchis bank account to Shehhis Sun Trust account on August 29 gave a number one digit different than the one given by Isam Mansour on August 5. A $70,000 payment was made to Shehhis account by Hani on September 17 from the same exchange centre, Hani gave a telephone number one digit removed from the one Baluchi used on the transfer from his bank account on August 29. When Ahmed al-Ghamdi went to Dubai, Baluchi helped him purchase a cell phone and it is believed nine of the hijackers met with him in Dubai and received various levels of aid. The 9/11 Commission Report stated that he relied on the nature of his transactions

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Ahmed al-Darbi
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Ahmed Muhammed Haza al-Darbi is a citizen of Saudi Arabia who has been held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba since August 2002. Al-Darbi was born on January 9,1975, in Taif and he was arrested in Azerbaijan in June 2002, renditioned by United States forces to Afghanistan, where he was held at Bagram Air Force Base, and then transferred to Guantanamo in August that year. In February 2014 Al-Darbi pleaded guilty to charges before a military commission in relation to the October 2002 attack on the Limburg. By the time of the attack, al-Darbi was already detained at Guantanamo but was charged with being a principal in planning the attack. He is the sixth detainee to plead guilty to charges, in part to establish a sentence, the brother-in-law of Khalid al-Mihdhar, who participated in the 9/11 attacks in the United States, specifically that on the Pentagon, al-Darbi was captured in Azerbaijan and arrested in June 2002. He was renditioned by United States forces into Afghanistan, there he was held in the Bagram Collection Point, while it was still under control of Alpha Company of the 519th Military Intelligence Battalion. They were reported to have beat their captives, allegedly resulting in the deaths of two prisoners on December 4,2001 and December 10,2001. Al-Darbi later identified Damien M. Corsetti, a soldier nicknamed the King of Torture by his fellow GIs, in May 2006 Department of Defense spokesmen said that al-Darbi would not be allowed to testify at Corsettis court martial for the deaths of detainees under his control. Al-Darbi was transported from Bagram to the center at Guantanamo Navy Base in August 2002. On December 21,2007 charges against Ahmed Muhammed Haza al-Darbi were referred to the authority for the Office of Military Commissions. On December 21,2007 charges against Ahmed Muhammed Haza al-Darbi were referred to Susan Crawford, head of the Guantanamo military commissions and he was charged, among other things, with the 2002 attack on the French oil tanker MV Limburg. In April 2008 Al-Darbi announced that he refused to participate in the Military Commission and he dismissed his military defense lawyer Brian Broyles, who described the refusal a reasoned decision. According to the Associated Press, at a hearing in December 2008 Al-Darbi had held up a photo of President Barack Obama as a sign of hope. According to the Associated Press, Al-Darbi wrote to his lawyer that Obama could, at a hearing on September 23,2009, the Presiding Officer of the military commission to hear Al-Darbis case agreed to a 60-day delay. His lawyer Ramzi Kassem told reporters after the hearing that Al-Darbi had written a note, addressed to President Obama. Kassem read the note aloud to reporters, the Associated Press quoted passages from the note. The Associated Press reported that the new charges had first been proposed in 2012, on July 30,2015, Spencer Ackerman, reporting in The Guardian, described efforts by al-Darbis prosecution team to acquire incriminating evidence. They tried to persuade another detainee, Mohamedou Ould Slahi, to agree to be interrogated about Al-Darbi, in 2009 US District Court Judge James Robertson had issued a special ruling, that Mohamedou Ould Slahi could no longer be interrogated

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Mohammad Fazl
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Mullah Mohammad Fazl is the Talibans former Deputy Defense Minister, and was held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps in Cuba after being classified as an enemy combatant by the United States. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 7 and he arrived at the Guantanamo detention camps on 11 January 2002, and was held there until 31 May 2014. Not much is known about Fazl, except that he served as the deputy minister under the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. American intelligence analysts estimate that Fazl was born in 1967, in Sekzi, Caher Cineh District, Uruzgan Province, Afghanistan. Although he negotiated an amnesty with the Afghan Northern Alliance leader Abdul Rashid Dostum, former Taliban Ambassador to Pakistan Abdul Salam Zaeef described being flown to the United States Navys amphibious warfare vessel, the USS Bataan, for special interrogation. Zaeef wrote that the cells were located six decks down, were only 1 meter by 2 meters. He wrote that the captives werent allowed to speak with one another, historian Andy Worthington, author of the The Guantanamo Files, identified Fazil as one of the men Zaeef recognized. Most Afghans had been repatriated to Afghanistan by 2009, negotiations hinged on a proposal to send the five men directly to Doha, Qatar, where they would be allowed to set up an official office for the Taliban. It was reported that Karzai, who had opposed the transfer. When he assumed office in January 2009 President Barack Obama made a number of promises about the future of Guantanamo and he promised the use of torture would cease at the camp. He promised to institute a new review system and that new review system was composed of officials from six departments, where the OARDEC reviews were conducted entirely by the Department of Defense. On April 9,2013, that document was made public after a Freedom of Information Act request, mohammed Fazl was one of the 71 individuals deemed too innocent to charge, but too dangerous to release. Fazl and other members of the Taliban five, as part of the conditions of their release, were prohibited from leaving Qatar for one year, human Rights Watch argues that despite his release from Guantanamo Bay, Fazl should be investigated and prosecuted for war crimes. Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo, part Two, Captured in Afghanistan Andy Worthington, September 17,2010

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Othman Ahmad Othman al-Ghamdi
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Othman Ahmed Othman Al Omairah was a citizen of either Yemen or Saudi Arabia, who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 184, joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts estimate he was born in 1973, in Shabwa, Yemen. Othman was identified differently on official US documents and official Saudi documents and he was identified as Othman Ahmed Othman Al Omairah on official lists of captives from April 2006, May 2006 and September 2007, and on the memos that summarized the allegations against him. But, on June 25,2006, the USA repatriated 14 men to Saudi Arabia, the DoD reports that he was a citizen of Yemen. A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for his tribunal, the memo listed the following allegations against him, Detainees whose Combatant Status Review Tribunal labeled them enemy combatants were scheduled for annual Administrative Review Board hearings. These hearings were designed to assess the threat a detainee might pose if released or transferred, a Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Othman Ahmed Othman Al Omairah Administrative Review Board, on 20 September 2005. The memo listed factors for and against his continued detention and his memo was three pages long. There is no record that Othman Ahmad Othman al-Ghamdi chose to either his Combatant Status Review Tribunal or his Administrative Review Board hearing. On June 25,200614 men were transferred from Guantanamo to Saudi Arabia, a Saudi identified as Othman Ahmad Othman al-Ghamdi was identified as one of the released men. On February 3,2009 the Saudi government published a list of 85 most wanted suspected terrorists and this list contained ten other former Guantanamo captives. Half of the former captives listed on most wanted list were also from among the eleven men repatriated on November 9. Joscelyn reported that the tape was released by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, joscelyn reported that the tape described Othman as one of the groups commanders. Al-Ghamdi was placed on the U. S. State Departments Rewards for Justice list on October 19,2014 He was quietly removed from the list in January 2016, the year before, a jihadist on Twitter had claimed that al-Ghamdi was killed in a drone strike. In March 2016, the State Department confirmed to The Bureau of Investigative Journalism that al-Ghamdi no longer posed a threat to U. S. persons or interests, the Guantánamo Files, Website Extras – Escape to Pakistan Andy Worthington

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Mustafa al-Hawsawi
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Mustafa al-Hawsawi is a Saudi Arabian citizen. He allegedly was an organizer and financier of the September 11 attacks in the United States, Al-Hawsawi was captured in Pakistan on March 1,2003, along with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and transferred to CIA custody. It detained him at the Salt Pit, a black site in Afghanistan. It has long known that, during al-Hawsawis CIA captivity, his captors injured him, causing him to suffer from anal fissures, chronic hemorrhoids and, most seriously. Al-Hawsawi was transferred from CIA custody to military custody at Guantanamo on September 6,2006, the Bush administration was then confident of passage of the Military Commissions Act of 2006, which restricted detainee use of habeas corpus, and prohibited them from using the federal court system. Al-Hawsawi was represented by the lawyer Jon S. Jackson, al-Hawsawis alternate names and aliases include Mustafa Ahmed, Mustafa Muhammad Ahmad, Ahmad Mustafa, Isam Mansour, Mustafa Ahmed Al-Hisawi, Mr. Ali, and Hani. He worked in its committee in Kandahar. Together with the al-Qaeda financer Ammar al-Baluchi, al-Hawsawi allegedly assisted the hijackers from the United Arab Emirates who were to carry out the 9/11 attacks in the United States. He helped coordinate with Mohamed Atta, the ringleader of the operation and he allegedly tried to help the so-called 20th hijacker, Mohammed al Qahtani, gain entry into the United States by visa, but al Qahtani was unable to gain approval. Allegedly sharing a credit card account with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, al-Hawsawi also allegedly sent funds to the hijackers. In the Summer of 2000, he appears to have sent a total of $109,910 to some of the 9/11 hijackers in a series of wire transfers under a variety of names. The New York Times has suggested that Mustafa Ahmed sent a total of $325,000 to the hijackers, just before the attacks, al-Hawsawi travelled to Pakistan. He was captured by authorities there on March 1,2003, the CIA maintained a detention and interrogation site there. This was not confirmed by U. S. officials, in the indictment of Zacarias Moussaoui, al-Hawsawi is said to have been born in Jeddah on August 5,1968. Zacarias Moussaouis defense team identified al-Hawsawi and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed as two of three men wanted to question as witnesses. The U. S. Federal government claims to be holding both men, but it refused Moussaouis request citing national security concerns, Al-Hawsawi was held in secret CIA custody, for several years. In particular, the revealed that, Al-Hawsawi had been held in detention site COBALT, believed to be situated in Afghanistan. In fact, after his first interrogation, the Chief of Interrogations wrote to CIA Headquarters saying that al-Hawsawi does not appear to the be a person that is a financial mastermind

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Ibrahim Othman Ibrahim Idris
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Ibrahim Othman Ibrahim Idris is a citizen of Sudan, formerly held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. His detainee ID number is 036, in July 2013 a motion was filed seeking his release because his physical and emotional health had deteriorated to the point where he could not pose a threat. On October 3,2013, Ben Fox, of the Associated Press reported that the United States Department of Justice had dropped its opposition to Idriss repatration. His entry in the official list of Guantanamo captives asserts he was born in Hathramaut, Yemen, according to a formerly secret Guantanamo assessment he is a medical doctor and suspected of serving as a camp doctor for al Qaeda on its front lines. A later review of Guantanamo assessments showed that they are unreliable, for example, following the Supreme Courts ruling the Department of Defense set up the Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants. are associated with both Al Qaeda and the Taliban. Ibrahim Othman Ibrahim Idris was listed as one of the captives who The military alleges that the following detainees stayed in Al Qaeda, Ibrahim Othman Ibrahim Idris was listed as one of the captives who The military alleges. Took military or terrorist training in Afghanistan, Ibrahim Othman Ibrahim Idris was listed as one of the captives who The military alleges. Ibrahim Othman Ibrahim Idris was listed as one of the captives who The military alleges, Ibrahim Othman Ibrahim Idris was listed as one of the captives whose names or aliases were found on material seized in raids on Al Qaeda safehouses and facilities. Ibrahim Othman Ibrahim Idris was listed as one of the captives who The military alleges that the detainees were captured under circumstances that strongly suggest belligerency. Ibrahim Othman Ibrahim Idris was listed as one of the captives who was an al Qaeda operative, Combatant Status Review Tribunal panel 13 convened on 3 November 2004 to confirm Mahmud Idriss enemy combatant status. A seventeen-page dossier of unclassified documents prepared for that tribunal was assembled for his habeas corpus attorneys and his habeas petition was first filed before US District Court Judge James Robertson. In September 2007 the Department of Justice published dossiers of unclassified documents arising from the Combatant Status Review Tribunals of 179 captives, on August 15,2006, his case was amalgamated with al Qosi v. Bush, along with 130 others. The Military Commissions Act of 2006 mandated that Guantanamo captives were no longer entitled to access the US civil justice system, in Salim Muhood Adem v. George W. Bush Civil Action No. 05-CV-00723 several dozen Guantanamo captives petitioned for relief because the Bush Presidency was not allowing the attorneys chosen by their families to meet with them, the Department of Justice was claiming the attorneys were not providing evidence that the captives had authorized them to act as their attorneys. US District Court Judge Alan Kay ruled a previous judicial rulings had not required that attorneys prove they had been authorized prior to visiting with a captive, the previous ruling had merely required that the captive explicitly authorize the attorney within ten days of that first visit. Kay declined to rule that the Bush administration was in contempt, and all previous Guantanamo captives habeas petitions were eligible to be re-instated. On July 18,2008 Jennifer R. Cowan of DEBEVOISE & PLIMPTON LLP re-initiated Civil Action No, 05-CV-1555 on behalf of Ibrahim Osman Ibrahim Idris. The motion argues “he’s too fat, too crazy and too sick to be a danger in the future

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Abdul Hadi al Iraqi
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Abdul Hadi al Iraqi is the nom de guerre of Nashwan Abdulrazaq Abdulbaqi, an alleged senior member of al-Qaeda who is now in US custody at Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba. Al-Iraqi was born in northern Mosul in 1961 and he speaks Arabic, Urdu, Kurdish, the Waziri tribal dialect of Pashtu and a courtly form of Persian. He served in the Iraqi Army, then he travelled to Afghanistan to repel the Soviet invasion. He was accused of commanding attacks on forces in Afghanistan. Following the American invasion in 2001, he clashed with Ahmed Khadr arguing that front line battle would prove more useful than guerilla tactics around Shagai, Pakistan. Al Iraqi was alleged to have managed the Ashara guest house, in Kabuls diplomatic district, from where he was alleged to command al Qaedas army and he had been wanted in Iraq since at least February 2005. The most recent U. S. State Department wanted poster said The Newsweek article claimed that al Iraqi brokered a 2005 reconciliation between Osama bin Laden and Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi. Newsweek asserted that Zarqawi had left a bad impression on his veterans of the struggle to evict the Soviet invaders. It was reported in January 2002 that someone with the same pseudonyms Abdul-Hadi al-Iraqi and that person was also described as a training camp commander. But despite these coincidences, the two suspects are now known to be distinct people, despite the report that Abdul-Hadi spoke several regional languages, several of the charges against Abdul Zahir stem from him serving as a translator for Abdul-Hadi. A captured letter dated 13 June 2002, and thought to be from Saif al-Adel, on 27 April 2007 it was reported that Abdul Hadi Al-Iraqi was in custody in Guantanamo Bay. He was previously held by the CIA, the BBC reported that US sources told them Al-Iraqi was arrested late last year. Bush claimed that the transfer of these fourteen men had emptied the CIAs secret interrogation camps, critics pointed out that Bush had not announced the closure of the camps. The date of Al-Iraqis capture has not been made known and it is not clear whether Al-Iraqi entered the CIAs network of secret interrogation camps before or after Bushs announcement. Although judges Peter Brownback and Keith J. Al Iraqi has had a writ of habeas corpus filed on his behalf, on January 21,2009, the day he was inaugurated, United States President Barack Obama issued three Executive orders related to the detention of individuals in Guantanamo. That new review system was composed of officials from six departments, on April 9,2013, that document was made public after a Freedom of Information Act request. Mohammed Abdul Malik Bajabu was one of the 71 individuals deemed too innocent to charge, Obama said those deemed too innocent to charge, but too dangerous to release would start to receive reviews from a Periodic Review Board. The first review wasnt convened until November 20,2013, as of 15 April 201629 individuals had reviews, but Abdul Hadi al Iraqi wasnt one of them

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Khairullah Khairkhwa
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Khirullah Said Wali Khairkhwa is a Taliban official and former governor of Herat. He was held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camp in Cuba and he was released in late May 2014 in a prisoner exchange that involved Bowe Bergdahl and the Taliban five. Press reports have referred to him as Mullah and Maulavi, two different honorifics for referring to senior Muslim clerics, claims from analysts at Guantanamo that Khairkhwa was directly associated with Osama Bin Laden and Taliban Supreme Commander Mullah Muhammad Omar have been widely repeated. American intelligence analysts estimate that Khairkhwa was born in 1967 in Kandahar and he is a Popalzai from Arghestan in Kandahar province. He studied religious topics at the Haqqaniya and Akhora Khattak madrassas in Pakistan and he held various government posts, both before the Taliban took over Afghanistan, including a police official in Kabul, and finally, Governor of Herat Province. Khirullah was one of the original Taliban members who launched the movement in 1994, khairullah Khairkhwah was the Minister of the Interior under Taliban rule in 1997 and 1998. The Deputy Minister was Mohammad Khaksar, some reports have said he had been the Talibans deputy minister of the interior, interim minister of the interior, the minister of the interior, and the Minister of Information. Khirullah was also to serve as the Talibans Minister of Foreign Affairs spokesman, giving interviews to the British Broadcasting Corporation, kate Clark, then of the BBC News, interviewed Khairkhwa in September 2000. Clark wrote that Khairkhwa was comfortable conversing in the Dari language and she wrote that, under Khairkhwa, she was allowed to film openly in Herat, even though doing so was disallowed under Taliban law. She wrote that, under Khairkhwa, Afghan women felt comfortable approaching her, according to journalist Mark Mazzetti, in February 2002, Khairkhwa and alleged CIA agent Ahmed Wali Karzai discussed the possibility of Khairkhwa surrendering and informing for the CIA. However, the CIA hoped to allow the Pakistanis to recruit or capture Khairkhwa, thus, the CIA recalled the drone following Khairkhwas truck, and a second drone pinpointed a different truck, whose innocent occupants were captured and later released. Khirullah Khairkhwa arrived at Guantanamo on May 1,2002, and had been there for 12 years. Following the Supreme Courts ruling the Department of Defense set up the Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants, khirullah Said Wali Khairkhwa was listed as one of the captives who The military alleges. Khirullah Said Wali Khairkhwa was listed as one of the captives who was a member of the Taliban leadership, khirullah Said Wali Khairkhwa was listed as one of the captives who had admitted being Taliban leader. On January 21,2009, the day he was inaugurated, United States President Barack Obama issued three Executive orders related to the detention of individuals in Guantanamo. He put in place a new review system composed of officials from six departments, on April 9,2013, that document was made public after a Freedom of Information Act request. Khairullah Khairkhwa was one of the 71 individuals deemed too innocent to charge, Obama said those deemed too innocent to charge, but too dangerous to release would start to receive reviews from a Periodic Review Board. The first review wasnt convened until November 20,2013, Khairkhwa and the other four members of the Taliban Five are the only forever prisoners to be released without being cleared by a review

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Shawali Khan
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Shawali Khan is a citizen of Afghanistan, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 899, american intelligence analysts estimate he was born in 1963, in Kandahar, Afghanistan. US District Court Judge John D. ” Shahwali Khans lawyer Leonard C, goodman, who has reviewed Shawalis confidential file says he was simply a merchant, denounced for a bounty. Shawali arrived at Guantanamo on February 7,2003, and was repatriated on December 20,2014, following the Supreme Courts ruling the Department of Defense set up the Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants. The Department of Defense was forced to publish Summary of Evidence memos from the status reviews convened in 2004,2005,2006 and 2007 and they also published transcripts and other documents. Shawali Khan was listed as one of the captives who The military alleges, are associated with both Al Qaeda and the Taliban. Shawali Khan was listed as one of the captives who The military alleges, took military or terrorist training in Afghanistan. Shawali Khan was listed as one of the captives who The military alleges, Shawali Khan was listed as one of the captives who The military alleges that the following detainees were captured under circumstances that strongly suggest belligerency. Shawali Khan was listed as one of the captives who was a Taliban fighters, Shawali Khan was listed as one of the 34 admit to some lesser measure of affiliation—like staying in Taliban or Al Qaeda guesthouses or spending time at one of their training camps. Shawali Khan was listed as one of the captives who had admitted fighting on behalf of Al Qaeda or the Taliban, Khan chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal. On March 3,2006, in response to an order from Jed Rakoff the Department of Defense published an eight-page summarized transcript from his Combatant Status Review Tribunal. Khan had requested two witnesses, who were ruled “not reasonably available”, because attempts to access those witnesses, through diplomatic channels, Khan chose to participate in his first annual Administrative Review Board hearing, in 2005, and his third annual ARB hearing in 2007. Eleven pages of heavily redacted memos containing his third annual review boards recommendations were published in January 2009 and his board convened on June 27,2007. His boards final recommendation memo was drafted on September 18,2007, gordon England, the Designated Civilian Official, who, on paper, had the authority to clear Shawali for transfer or release initialed his decision on Shawalis transfer status on September 20,2007. On April 25,2011, whistleblower organization WikiLeaks published formerly secret assessments drafted by Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts, on January 21,2009, the day he was inaugurated, United States President Barack Obama issued three Executive orders related to the detention of individuals in Guantanamo. He established a force to re-review the status of all the remaining captives. President Obama gave the force a year, and it recommended the release of Shawali Khan and 54 other individuals. Shawali Khan was finally repatriated to Afghanistan on December 20,2014, the controversial Afghan leader had been widely described as a former Guantanamo captive

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Ravil Mingazov
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Ravil Mingazov is a citizen of Russia who was held in extrajudicial detention for almost fifteen years in the United Statess Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. The Department of Defense reports that Mingazov was born on 5 December 1967, in Bolsheretski, Ravil Mingazov arrived at Guantanamo on October 28,2002, and has been held at Guantanamo for 14 years,5 months and 10 days. Mingazov, a member of the ethnic group, was a ballet dancer. Anti-Muslim harassment drove Mingazov to leave Russia for Tajikistan, in 2000, Mingazov was approved for transfer on July 21,2016. He was transferred to the United Arab Emirates on January 18,2017. are associated with Al Qaeda, Ravil Mingazov was listed as one of the captives who The military alleges. Stayed in Al Qaeda, Taliban or other guest- or safehouses, Ravil Mingazov was listed as one of the captives who The military alleges. Took military or terrorist training in Afghanistan, Ravil Mingazov was listed as one of the captives who The military alleges that the following detainees were captured under circumstances that strongly suggest belligerency. Ravil Mingazov was listed as one of the captives who was an al Qaeda operative, Ravil Mingazov was listed as one of the 34 admit to some lesser measure of affiliation—like staying in Taliban or Al Qaeda guesthouses or spending time at one of their training camps. Ravil Mingazov was listed as one of the captives who had stayed at Taliban or Al Qaeda guesthouses, Ravil Mingazov was listed as one of the captives who had admitted some form of associational conduct. On May 13,2010, US District Court Judge Henry H. Kennedy, Mingazovs was the 35 case where the judge ordered a release. The government had succeeded in convincing a habeas corpus judge continued detention was justified in an additional 13 cases, a panel of judges on the Washington DC court of appeals reversed Kennedys release order. On April 25,2011, the whistleblower organization WikiLeaks published formerly secret assessments prepared by Joint Task Force Guantanamo, ravils assessment was nine pages and recommended continued detention under DoD Control. It was signed by camp commandant Mark H. Buzby and those Executive Orders set up a Guantanamo Review Task Force, intended to replace OARDEC. In October 2013 Freedom of Information Act requests submitted by Carol Rosenberg, according to that list Ravil Mingazov should be referred for prosecution. Russian officials are scheduled to travel to Guantanamo on January 17,2014, according to the Moscow Times visiting Russian officials had been turned away in April 2013, because Mingazov had declined to meet with them. On November 6,2015, The Guardian reported that Mingazovs teenage son and his wife now live in the United Kingdom. His son and former wife arrived in the UK in 2014, Mingazov was one of the last four individuals to be tranferred from Guantanamo before the end Barack Obamas Presidency. Trump had promised to curtail all transfers from Guantanamo

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Moath Hamza Ahmed al Alwi
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Muaz Hamza Ahmad Al Alawi is a citizen of Yemen, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. His detainee ID number is 028, Guantanamo analysts estimated he was born in 1977, in Bajor, Yemen. Al-Alawi arrived at Guantanamo on January 17,2002, and has held at Guantanamo for 15 years,2 months and 22 days. Al-Alawi is a long-term Guantanamo hunger striker, who has described his force-feeding as “an endless horror story. ”In March 2015 he weighed just 98 pounds. Following the Supreme Courts ruling the Department of Defense set up the Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants. are associated with both Al Qaeda and the Taliban, muaz Hamza Ahmad Alawi was listed as one of the captives who The military alleges. Muaz Hamza Ahmad Alawi was listed as one of the captives who The military alleges that the following detainees stayed in Al Qaeda, muaz Hamza Ahmad Alawi was listed as one of the captives who The military alleges. Took military or terrorist training in Afghanistan, muaz Hamza Ahmad Alawi was listed as one of the captives who The military alleges. Muaz Hamza Ahmad Alawi was listed as one of the captives who The military alleges, muaz Hamza Ahmad Alawi was listed as one of the captives whose names or aliases were found on material seized in raids on Al Qaeda safehouses and facilities. Muaz Hamza Ahmad Alawi was listed as one of the captives who The military alleges that the detainees were captured under circumstances that strongly suggest belligerency. Muaz Hamza Ahmad Alawi was listed as one of the captives who The military alleges, served on Osama Bin Laden’s security detail. Muaz Hamza Ahmad Alawi was listed as one of the captives who was ab al Qaeda operative. Muaz Hamza Ahmad Alawi was listed as one of the 82 detainees made no statement to CSRT or ARB tribunals or made statements that do not bear materially on the allegations against them. Al Alawi had a writ of habeas corpus filed on his behalf, the New York Times called the two rulings, the first clear-cut victories for the Bush administration, while Andy Worthington noted they represented a disturbing development. In August 2011 Thomas Joscelyn reported that a panel of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals had upheld Leons ruling, on April 25,2011, whistleblower organization WikiLeaks published formerly secret assessments drafted by Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts. A thirteen-page Joint Task Force Guantanamo detainee assessment was drafted for him on March 14,2008 and it was signed by camp commandant Rear Admiral Mark H. Buzby, who recommended continued detention. When he assumed office in January 2009 President Barack Obama made a number of promises about the future of Guantanamo and he promised the use of torture would cease at the camp. He promised to institute a new review system and that new review system was composed of officials from six departments, where the OARDEC reviews were conducted entirely by the Department of Defense. On April 9,2013, that document was made public after a Freedom of Information Act request, Al Alawi was one of the 71 individuals deemed too innocent to charge, but too dangerous to release

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Following the Supreme Court's ruling in Rasul v. Bush the DoD was required to read a notice to every captive informing them that they would have an opportunity to learn why they were being held, and to offer a response, at their Combatant Status Review Tribunal.